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Secrets of the Art
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11. most artificial
Eleven: This
Art is most artificial
The
greatness of the artifice reveals the Wisdom of the
Artificer: hence, were anyone to know the entire
structure of this immensely huge Machine, namely GOD's
artificial Work in all its divisions down to the smallest
subdivision, if anyone were to know the essences, natural
powers, specific forms, order and natural interactive
habits of all vegetal, animal and mineral beings, if
anyone were to have completely perfect knowledge of the
movement, influences, essential inter connectedness in
essence and quality of the elements and the celestial
spheres, his spirit would be overwhelmed in rapt
admiration of such a Creator.
"For by
the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the
creator of them may be seen, so as to be known
thereby." (Wisdom Ch 13 v 5)
And by
proportionally reversing this argument, I say, my Son,
(if small things can be compared to great ones) that if
anyone were to know the power and wisdom that GOD infused
in the first Man, when GOD set man to rule over the
entire fabric of this world, he would discern that in
this created power and wisdom there is a certain
microcosmic operation (most of the wise in this world
only know it by name) all of whose parts, whether they
actually exist or whether they can be brought into act by
the Art, correspond to all parts of the macrocosm; and
here, my Son, is the Secret that is the most secret of
all natural Secrets, that our glorious and sublime GOD
has revealed to precious few of his faithful servants for
whom it has been reserved, and GOD deigned to make me,
his most unworthy servant, a partaker in this Secret.
My Son, it
pleased Almighty GOD, the Lord of Lords, to reveal to me
the universal Science of the transmutation of all metals
as well as precious stones, and the way to heal all human
bodies, and almighty GOD ordained this to make his
admirable power manifest through the whole world; and as
for the ignorant ones in this world, who judge that none
of these things can possibly be true, were they to read
our books (and here I do not only mean my Chemistry books
on which they cast doubt, but I refer to the Books that
you have already published in the first Tome, namely the
Key to the Art, and the Books on the Principles of
Philosophy and Medicine), and if they are not totally
blind they would easily believe that all these things are
true, and given by GOD. (Doctor Illum. in Aper. Ani. in
prol. n. 2.) My Son, you saw the figure of a great Book,
namely the Book of the Earthly Paradise that we saw in a
vision; and I tell you to safeguard it from the hands of
the enemies of the Church of GOD, the greedy and the
sinners, I saw the entire Arcanum of nature in a vision
on top of a lofty mountain, above the sphere of fire,
where I saw things that cannot be told.
And to make
you aware of the reason why I wrote many of my books in
tree-like form, note that they all refer to one tree
whose secret and figure I revealed to you in my Testament
and in the third Distinction of the Book of Quintessence;
for I saw the Tree of Life, and I saw the figure that I
transmitted to you under license from GOD. (Doctor Illum.
Lib.3. cap.7. n.14. Test. Secr. Ult.)
Consider, my
dearest Son, the divine power that illuminated me, He is
the true Lord, strong and clement, most powerful,
most merciful, who deigned to reveal to me, an unworthy,
malevolent sinner, the entire Arcanum of natural
philosophy. (Doctor Illum. in Lib. Secret. Test. ult.
l.1.c.2. n.61) and not only did He teach me the highest
artifice of all natural artifices in the twenty-four
experiments of all created nature, (see this book by
Doctor Illuminatus) that include all the artifices and
experiments attainable by a rational creature in this
mortal life, unknown to anyone before me, and only
learned by a few after me, but He also opened for me the
most sublime artifice of all intellectual artifices, as
He gave me the Key to all Science and the Treasure of all
Wisdom on this earth. (Doctor. Illum. in Lib. Secret.
Ang. de Confer. Vit. in prol. n.14.) I will explain to
you two of the forms of this artifice in the following
Chapter, one is in the Secret of the Figures or Wheels
and the other in the Secret of the Tables, where you will
have a bird's eye view of the most sublime artifices of
my Art.
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